Hey there AGU members (active or inactive) - you are invited to sign this open letter, asking @AGU to move its major 2025 conference to a state with no abortion ban! 🧵 docs.google.com/document/d/1ko…

Update: post-Roe fallout in state houses and courts make it ever more clear that scientific organizations like @AGU should not risk the safety of their membership by holding conferences in states with an abortion ban. 🧵 docs.google.com/document/d/1ko…

Response from AGU leadership: AGU is planning a number of discussions to consider next steps. connect.agu.org/discussion/see…

Update: Nicola Jones reported on our petition in this writeup for Nature Careers. nature.com/articles/d4158…

“This environment creates an immediate medical risk”: Louisiana's abortion ban prompts American Geophysical Union AGU (American Geophysical Union) petitioners to reject meeting site Claire Kouba Louisiana Abortion Ban go.nature.com/3RPv04a

Job announcement: We're looking for an Open Science Lead to join our team! If you are passionate about open software and data and its application to climate problems, please apply. Expected salary is $145,000 USD and we work remotely. Please share widely. apply.workable.com/carbonplan/j/6…

This week, Shayle Kann talks to Eric Slessarev, a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he studies soil carbon. Turns out dirt is pretty complicated. 🎧 Listen: link.chtbl.com/XhGD1sfp

To measure change in soil #carbon: sample T-zero vs ~5yrs, right? Or use space-for-time design? Turns out there’s a problem w that.. Eric Slessarev describes two artifacts that exaggerate importance of initial SOC stocks doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16… A big issue for soil #CDR calcs??

OPINION Initial soil organic #carbonstocks govern changes in soil carbon: reality or artifact? 📄 bit.ly/3VT5Ggq Eric Slessarev Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge Erin Nuccio Allegra Mayer Courtland Kelly @GeorgiouKat Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory UC Merced Nat Sci

Check out our publication on #Spodosols in the coastal temperate rainforest of southeast #Alaska! Diogo Spinola led this work w/our Alaska Coastal Rainforest #Soil #Science team. We looked at clay mineralogy and geochemistry along a lithosequence. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

AGU overreacts, silences, and censors. Add your voice here: aguopenletter.com/?fbclid=IwAR1I…